It may be that you wish to design your own backgrounds for your slides
rather than use Powerpoint's built-in templates.
To customise your own backgrounds (which may be applied to all or just single
slides) try the following:
- Select 'Format' from the top toolbar, and then 'background'.
- You will now see something that looks like this:
- Click on the arrow next to the blank text field and select 'fill effects'.
- You now have access to a number of tools that you can use to create various
background effects:
- Gradient - provides preset colour combinations and allows creation of
effects with pairs of colours
- Texture - a selection of built-in textures
- Pattern - preset patterns that can be used with pairs of colours Note:
be careful with these. They can be intrusive.
- Picture - browse your own files for a picture to use as a background